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Its a boring Saturday, a foot of snow in the yard, and I just got an XPE led to try out.
I make a homemade light called a Drumlight...so I got the necessary parts together and started the process to make 3 lights.
I call them drumlights, because the body is from the drum of an HP printer cartridge from my job of refilling cartridges.
I don't sell them because they aren't that durable...everything is glued together, and I can't find anything but a cheap clicky that works.
I do however, give one away at the Milky get together most times.
The XPE led will have a high/low driver from KD. THe other 2 will have 750 ma drivers from DX and P4 led's from DX too. THe optics are also from KD..same as the LED Supply ones. They are actually pretty good. I buy 12" lenghts of 3/4" solid aluminum round, and cut the heatsinks to 5/8" .
I slot the heatsinks on the sides...use DX thermal glue to glue the led's and the drivers to each end of the heatsink. Then I solder the driver to the led, solder a long wire to the negative outer rim of the driver to attach to the switch. The switch is hot melt glued into the hollowed out gear ( from the drum ). The body does not carry the negative power, because the plastic gear won't let the switch touch the body- so I attach the wire from the driver to the switch. The switch has a 3/4 inch spring built in, and until I found these parts I couldn't make it work.
Lighthouse one....
Its a boring Saturday, a foot of snow in the yard, and I just got an XPE led to try out.
I make a homemade light called a Drumlight...so I got the necessary parts together and started the process to make 3 lights.
I call them drumlights, because the body is from the drum of an HP printer cartridge from my job of refilling cartridges.
I don't sell them because they aren't that durable...everything is glued together, and I can't find anything but a cheap clicky that works.
I do however, give one away at the Milky get together most times.
The XPE led will have a high/low driver from KD. THe other 2 will have 750 ma drivers from DX and P4 led's from DX too. THe optics are also from KD..same as the LED Supply ones. They are actually pretty good. I buy 12" lenghts of 3/4" solid aluminum round, and cut the heatsinks to 5/8" .
I slot the heatsinks on the sides...use DX thermal glue to glue the led's and the drivers to each end of the heatsink. Then I solder the driver to the led, solder a long wire to the negative outer rim of the driver to attach to the switch. The switch is hot melt glued into the hollowed out gear ( from the drum ). The body does not carry the negative power, because the plastic gear won't let the switch touch the body- so I attach the wire from the driver to the switch. The switch has a 3/4 inch spring built in, and until I found these parts I couldn't make it work.
Lighthouse one....